PULMONARY DIFFUSING CAPACITY AND ITS EVALUATION BY SCINTILLATION SCANNING OF LUNGS IN LUNG CANCER
- 1 January 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier
- Vol. 95 (2) , 239-+
- https://doi.org/10.1164/arrd.1967.95.2.239
Abstract
Scintillation scanning of the lung is useful in evaluation of pulmonary arterial involvement in patients with lung cancer of the hilar node type. If the pulmonary arterial trunk is functionally obstructed by the surrounding lymph node enlargement of cancerous process, a low value of the CO pulmonary diffusing capacity with decreased pulmonary capillary blood volume can be explained by the findings on a scintigram.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Effect of metastatic carcinoma to the lung on pulmonary function in manThe American Journal of Medicine, 1964
- Regional Pulmonary Blood Flow in Man by Radioisotope ScanningJAMA, 1964
- Relative Importance of Diffusion and Chemical Reaction Rates in Determining Rate of Exchange of Gases in the Human Lung, With Special Reference to True Diffusing Capacity of Pulmonary Membrane and Volume of Blood in the Lung CapillariesJournal of Applied Physiology, 1957